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books:

Saving Stanley: The Brickman Stories

3 reviews
Scott Nadelson

Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts, LLC, 2004

Read it
Last week I had the pleasure of lunch with Jackie, a Yugoslavian exchange student and avid recreational reader, who told me (among other things) that I must read The Brickman Stories, i.e. Saving Stanley. I finished this smooth New Jersey family saga in six days. The book is built on engrams (persistent protoplasmic alterations hypothesized to occur on stimulation of living neural tissue and to ...

The Cantor's Daughter: Stories

3 reviews
Scott Nadelson

Hawthorne Books, 2006

Best Thing I've Read in 06
The Cantor's Daughter is Scott Nadelson's excellent second collection of stories (including one novella). I was mostly flummoxed by the Publisher's Weekly review, which was intelligent in its own way and demonstrated acquaintance with the stories, but in the end offered insights more pertinent to Pippi Longstocking or Men in Latvian Maid Outfits Wrestling Among the Timbers. Trust me on this, ...